Applescript for QuickTime help needed.

Question

I have some mkv files that I would like to re-encapsulate as mov files.
Through the GUI I would normally open the mkv in quicktime, then Save or Save As with self-contained option selected, and just hit enter. This would save the re-encapsulate the movie with no re-encoding to the same directory with the same filename, but now with the .mov extension. This works with no issues.
Now, I want to be able to automate this process, but the only thing I can't figure out is how to tell the movie to *save self contained* with the *+same name in the same directory+*.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

Answer 1

I don't know what the rest of your script is, but the following snippet will save the front document - no error checking (such as existing files or loaded state of the document) is done:
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width: 720px;
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title="this text can be pasted into the AppleScript Editor">
tell application "QuickTime Player 7" to tell document 1
set thePath to it's path & ".mov" -- just add a new extension to the existing file path
save self contained it in thePath
-- close
end tell
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